Botticelli March 2023

Thread Games
201

IQ1: Did you and your brother have a bicycle shop in Ohio in the late nineteenth century?
IQ2: Were you the main character in Heinlein’s Glory Road?
IQ3: Does a British dyke bear your name?

202
  1. I’m not Orville Wright
  2. Take a DQ
  3. While I can’t be positive that there isn’t a lesbian in Britain that has taken my name, I find it highly unlikely so take one more DQ
203

As SCAdian says above, any character counts. He, she, they or it doesn’t have to human.

Correct on Olive. Her brother’s Castor Oyl; her mom’s Nana Oyl.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
204
  1. Fictional
  2. Male
205

Previous IQs:

Did you give your name to an Ohio town? - Ebenezer Zane of Zanesville
Did you give your name to a mountain in the American West? - Yes, Zebulon Pike
Did you reluctantly help an NYPD cop in a very big hurry? - Yes, Zeus in Die Hard 2

Congratulations, Buck! O it is.

IQs:

Were you AKA Tharkun?
Did you head the Freedmens’ Bureau and have a college named after you?
Did you play an elderly, post-1963 JFK?

206

correct
Oscar Gordon
Offa


DQ1: Originally from prose fiction?
DQ2: American creator(s)?

207

IQs:

  1. Were you the 44th POTUS?
  2. Did e. e. cummings sing of you, “glad and big”?
  3. Did you write The Art of Love and Metamorphoses?
208
  1. Not Obama
    Take 2 DQs
  1. Not originally from prose fiction (which I take to mean novels or short stories)
  2. American Creation
209

Ahem.

210

Congrats, Buck!

IQs:
1. Did you observe that candy is dandy but liquor is quicker?
2. Did you perform “Cut Piece”?
3. Were you Cope’s bone-hunting rival?

211

Sorry,

  1. Take a DQ
  2. I’m not Oberlin? Otherwise take a DQ
  3. Take a DQ
  1. I’m not Oscar Wilde? (Otherwise take a DQ)
    2-3) Take 2 DQs
212

IQ1: Are you green and dwell in a garbage can?
IQ2: Did 007 quip you were named after your father, perhaps?
IQ3: Did you give another form of your name to the middle of the week?

213

Correct on Barack Obama.
#2 was Olaf, in a poem.
#3 was Ovid.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with O?
  2. Created after 1900?
214

1 was Ogden Nash; 2 was Yoko Ono; 3 was Othniel Marsh.

DQs:
1. male?
2. main character?

1 DQ reserved.

215
  1. I am not Oscar the grouch
  2. I am not Octopussy?
  3. I am not Odin
  1. Last name does not start with O
  2. Created after 1900.
  1. Already asked and answered (take another DQ).
  2. I would say no. His importance in the work probably equivalent to Keiko O’Brien on Deep space 9.

DQ’s so far

  1. Male
  2. FIctional
  3. Not from Prose (ie not novel or short story)
  4. American Creation
  5. After 1900
  6. O is not last name
  7. Not really a Main Character
216

Previous IQs:

Were you AKA Tharkun? - Olorin AKA Gandalf
Did you head the Freedmens’ Bureau and have a college named after you? - Oliver O. Howard
Did you play an elderly, post-1963 JFK? - Ossie Davis, in Bubba Ho-tep

DQs:

American character?
Good guy?
First appeared after 1950?

IQs:

Were you one of Drew Carey’s best sitcom pals?
Did you, to your credit, refuse to obey the Nawlins segregation laws?
Did you have a yacht called Sperm?

217

DQs

  1. American Character
  2. After 1950
  3. I would say he’s a pretty good guy

IQs

  1. Take a DQ
  2. Jesse Owens?
  3. Take another DQ
218

IQs:
1. Did you host Saturday Night Live yesterday (not four days ago)?
2. Were you originally Lyman’s pet, until he stopped appearing in the strip?
3. Now you are become Death, destroyer of worlds?

DQs:
1. created after 1980?
2. originally from film, TV, etc.?

219
  1. Take a DQ
    2 Take a DQ
    3 I’m not Oppenheimer

DQ answers

  1. Male

  2. FIctional

  3. Not from Prose (ie not novel or short story)

  4. American Creation

  5. After 1900

  6. O is not last name

  7. Not really a Main Character

  8. American Character

  9. Good Guy

  10. Created after 1950

  11. Created after 1980**

  12. Not originally from film TV etc.
220

Yes
Plenty O’Toole, in Diamonds Are Forever
Yes

DQ: Originally from comics (comic book, comic strip)?